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Thank you for making txt2tags. It's simplicity is truly beautiful.
<br><span class="name">-- Jan Lübke (Germany)</span>
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Txt2tags outperforms every other markup I know.
<br><span class="name">-- Frank Müller (Germany)</span>
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I should have discovered this tool years ago!
<br><span class="name">-- Gert Olie</span>
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I absolutely love this program and it becomes more fun to use the longer I use it.
<br><span class="name">-- Little Girl</span>
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This is perfect!
<br><span class="name">-- Felix Hummel (Germany)</span>
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I investigated DocBook, Wiki's, plain text, RTF, reStructured Text...
and txt2tags is the winner.
<br><span class="name">-- Stefano Spinucci (Italy)</span>
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Txt2tags is the only way I would ever write a man-page.
<br><span class="name">-- Christof Boeckler (Germany)</span>
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Txt2tags is THE defition of KIS*S*. Congrats!
<br><span class="name">-- Nikos Kouremenos (Greece)</span>
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It indeed takes no more than 5 minutes to get used to the markup syntax
and generated files compile flawlessly.
<br><span class="name">-- Davor Svetinovic</span>
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I really looked at several commercial and Open Source doc publishing
solutions including FrameMaker / WebWorks, MS Word + Html, Pdf Plugins.
None was flexible enough like txt2tags.
<br><span class="name">-- Rahul Bhargava (United States)</span>
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<H3>Many supported formats</H3>

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<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art">ASCII Art text</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc">AsciiDoc document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_(markup)">Creole 1.0 document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook">DocBook document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokuwiki">DokuWiki page</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_code">Google Code Wiki page</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">LaTeX document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout">Lout document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicPoint">MagicPoint presentation (mgp)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoinMoin">MoinMoin page</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagemaker">PageMaker document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text">Plain text</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PmWiki">PmWiki page</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML">SGML document</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page">UNIX manual page (manpage)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki">Wikipedia page (MediaWiki)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML">XHTML document</A>
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...and even more in <A HREF="http://code.google.com/p/txt2tags/">SVN</A>!
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<H3>Simple</H3>

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<LI><B>KISS:</B> The program follows the sacred <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_Principle">KISS Principle</A>.
<LI><B>Ready To Use:</B> No configuration, no compiling. Just download and run.
<LI><B>Save Your Hair:</B> No more library, catalog, schema and DTD nightmares.
<LI><B>Straight Edge:</B> Aimed for documents and websites, not books.
<LI><B>Sanity:</B> No flow control, system() or other programming capabilities.
<LI><B>Beauty:</B> Being simple is feature, not a bug.
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<H3>Techie</H3>

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<LI><B>Clean Results:</B> The generated code is clean, <A HREF="features.t2t">readable</A>, and <A HREF="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">valid</A>.
<LI><B>Multi-platform:</B> Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows and many others.
<LI><B>User Interfaces:</B> Command line (--options), GUI (Tk) and Web (PHP).
<LI><B>Any Text editor:</B> Use the editor you like most.
<LI><B>Spellcheck Friendly:</B> Marks are symbols, the spell checker will ignore them.
<LI><B>Light Resources:</B> It does not index, compile, compress, draw or do any strong processing.
<LI><B>License:</B> GPL.
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<H3>More than just code</H3>

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<LI><B>Complete Documentation:</B> Guides, samples, reference. Translated to many languages.
<LI><B>Extras:</B> Syntax files for text editors, Wiki plugins, auto-update tools.
<LI><B>Team work:</B> The user community <A HREF="team">contributes</A> actively to the project.
<LI><B>User base:</B> The txt2tags <A HREF="children.html">user base</A> is large and world-wide.
<LI><B>Experience:</B> Born in 2001, today txt2tags is very stable and mature.
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<H3>Minimalist markup</H3>

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<LI><B>Less Typing:</B> Marks are symbols like <CODE>+</CODE>, <CODE>:</CODE> and <CODE>=</CODE>.
<LI><B>Natural Marks:</B> You already use some of them in e-mails.
<LI><B>Uncomplicated:</B> No keywords, no parameters, no attributes.
<LI><B>Readable:</B> The source file remains readable, unpolluted.
<LI><B>Consistent:</B> Simple and consistent rules, no "special cases".
<LI><B>Strong:</B> Marks are unique enough to don't confuse with contents.
<LI><B>Rich:</B> We have marks for tables, images, lists, comments and more.
<LI><B>Easy:</B> Learn fast, <A HREF="markup.html">learn now</A>.
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<H3>Diet Python</H3>

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<LI><B>One-file Program:</B> Just a single <A HREF="http://python.org">Python</A> script, no extra files.
<LI><B>Standard Library:</B> Works on default Python install, no extra modules are required.
<LI><B>Very Fast:</B> Even real big documents take a blink of an eye to convert.
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<H3>Simple but not limited</H3>

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<LI><B>TOC Generation:</B> Automatic Table of Contents.
<LI><B>Automatic Numbering:</B> Never number lists/topics/headings by hand anymore.
<LI><B>Include:</B> You can include external files as marked or tagged text.
<LI><B>Filters:</B> Use regular expressions for Pre and Post processing filters.
<LI><B>Scripting Friendly:</B> It can read from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
<LI><B>Configuration:</B> Optional config file can store preferences and filters.
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Txt2tags, the last markup you will ever learn. Hope so :)
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